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<blockquote data-quote="Funksaw" data-source="post: 1622885" data-attributes="member: 20181"><p>Not so much to disagree with the maker of the setting, but you can still have plenty of use for a "detect evil" spell in a setting where alignment is downplayed. </p><p></p><p>See, in fantasy, there's "evil" people who are oppertunistic, callous, mad, greedy - and in D&D terms, they might be "evil" aligned.</p><p></p><p>But that is not to be confused with demons, certain monsters, certain artifacts that are beyond the pale.</p><p></p><p>The way I see it, even "normal" evil people - the tyrannical king, the power-mad wizard in the tower - they wouldn't show up on Eberron's "Detect Evil" scale? Why? Becuase they, at some point, <em>chose</em> to be evil, and so long as they continue to have free will, they can <em>choose</em> to redeem. </p><p></p><p>What Detect Evil in a "lax Alignment" setting means to me is that it works on those things which have no purpose other than to BE evil. That cannot help but BE evil - That wizard in the tower might not show up, but the cursed bracers that he makes *would,* or even, if he were to make a monster with no capacity for goodness in it - it would show up on the Pala-dar. </p><p></p><p>Specifically, I'm reminded of an Angel episode where a boy was possessed by a demon... The twist was that the demon was *trapped* inside the boy's body and couldn't do a thing, and the boy was doing all the evil stuff... however, that demon was still evil. It seems to me that the Demon - even when inside the boy - would show up as detect evil - but the boy wouldn't, even though his actions were *more* evil than the Demon's. </p><p></p><p>When you move from evil being defined by predestination rather than action, then Detect Evil itself requires remarkably few changes and could indeed still be useful even in an Eberron campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Funksaw, post: 1622885, member: 20181"] Not so much to disagree with the maker of the setting, but you can still have plenty of use for a "detect evil" spell in a setting where alignment is downplayed. See, in fantasy, there's "evil" people who are oppertunistic, callous, mad, greedy - and in D&D terms, they might be "evil" aligned. But that is not to be confused with demons, certain monsters, certain artifacts that are beyond the pale. The way I see it, even "normal" evil people - the tyrannical king, the power-mad wizard in the tower - they wouldn't show up on Eberron's "Detect Evil" scale? Why? Becuase they, at some point, [i]chose[/i] to be evil, and so long as they continue to have free will, they can [i]choose[/i] to redeem. What Detect Evil in a "lax Alignment" setting means to me is that it works on those things which have no purpose other than to BE evil. That cannot help but BE evil - That wizard in the tower might not show up, but the cursed bracers that he makes *would,* or even, if he were to make a monster with no capacity for goodness in it - it would show up on the Pala-dar. Specifically, I'm reminded of an Angel episode where a boy was possessed by a demon... The twist was that the demon was *trapped* inside the boy's body and couldn't do a thing, and the boy was doing all the evil stuff... however, that demon was still evil. It seems to me that the Demon - even when inside the boy - would show up as detect evil - but the boy wouldn't, even though his actions were *more* evil than the Demon's. When you move from evil being defined by predestination rather than action, then Detect Evil itself requires remarkably few changes and could indeed still be useful even in an Eberron campaign. [/QUOTE]
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